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$45M Plan Helps Fill Design Center

WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA-New York City-based developer Charles S. Cohen has design showrooms returning to the Pacific Design Center.

By Bob Howard | Updated on October 30, 2007

WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA-New York City-based developer Charles S. Cohen has interior design showrooms returning to the Pacific Design Center, thanks in large part to a $45 million repositioning and renovation program at the iconic project at 8687 Melrose Ave. Cohen’s program has targeted prestigious high-end interior design showrooms that once occupied the center but had left for storefront locations elsewhere.

Cohen’s program has attracted 40,000 sf of new tenants, bringing the occupancy to 90% at the 750,000-sf Center Blue building at the design center. The Blue building, known locally as the Blue Whale, opened in 1975 as the first of three buildings to be developed at the West Hollywood project. The Blue building was once filled with showrooms, but occupancy declined in the 1990s before Cohen acquired the building.

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